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All Grown Up andStill in Tow

Sherri Beattie

1 My heart went out to him. In fact, I felt so uncomfortable thatI looked away. How humiliating to be in a university registrar’soffice with your father taking charge.

2 As I stood in line, waiting for my own question to beanswered, I reflected on how times have changed.

3 I am as old as, if not older than, most faculty members.

4 Nonetheless, I do remember what it was like to be an 18-year-old undergraduate. The first-year experience is exciting,liberating and terrifying, all combined to help us grow intoadulthood. That is, if our parents don’t come with us.

5 The young man at the counter had some sort of registrationproblem. It is inevitable in the first year. The woman behind thecounter clearly felt, as I did, embarrassed for this young man,who was accompanied by his no doubt well-intentioned, butmisguided, father.

6 Dad did the talking while his son struggled to lift his eyesand look at the woman trying to help them. I thought aboutthose small bits of self-confidence that were so painstakinglybuilt in boyhood, and how they were being crushed at thecounter. What I saw was a student who looked perfectly able toask a few questions and get the information he needed.

7 I grew very angry. “Oh, grow up, go home,” I wanted toshout at Dad from my place in the line.

8 I was equally shocked as I sat in a seminar for 500 first-yearteaching assistants and was told what to do when Mom and/or Dad shows up in your office complaining about the marksor assignments that you have given to their children. It is a veryreal issue in universities these

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